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I am sure some of you have heard of it. If not... it's one of the latest trends in Vancouver.
100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
The idea is that global transportation of food is causing shortages in places like Malawi where food is abundant but they're all exported out, leaving the native population starving; that global vegetarianism is actually more harmful to the environment than eating locally in term of carbon footprint; that we deprived ourselves of nutrients by purchasing unripened fruits and vegetables produced in other parts of the world.
The whole thing behind the diet is that you only eat what is available to you within 100-mile. The couple that initiated the trend were originally vegans, but ended up having to make a few sacrifices. Their lifestyle was so strict, it boiled down to asking the farmers where the feeds for the animals came from.
It's an interesting concept; actually, I wanted to do something like this long before I heard of the 100-mile diet-- eating locally-grown food that would had been available to my ancestors in 1871, which would had covered a bit more than a 100-mile.
However I see a few hurdles with myself: I am a potential candidate for celiac; however not all wheat, rye or spelt products bother me since it depends on the mill, so maybe it is related to the molds grown in storage at those mills, or the molds grown on the grains those mills sourced. What is really going to sucks is giving up oranges and rice, my two favourite things in the world-- and having to sustain on kasha (Slavic for groats, any kind of groats) since potato is not a favourite of mine. Also, if I do this, I will learn how to make my own jams, pickles, sauces and bread-making.
I will see about giving this diet a shot once I figure out where the grains are coming from, and see if I can find partners to help out with the u-pick farms without a vehicle of my own. Apparently the key to making the diet work is to be reasonable, and have exceptions where one is not required to observe the rule such as eating out with friends, visiting relatives, eating on the job.
Have anyone done it, or has considered doing it?
100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
The idea is that global transportation of food is causing shortages in places like Malawi where food is abundant but they're all exported out, leaving the native population starving; that global vegetarianism is actually more harmful to the environment than eating locally in term of carbon footprint; that we deprived ourselves of nutrients by purchasing unripened fruits and vegetables produced in other parts of the world.
The whole thing behind the diet is that you only eat what is available to you within 100-mile. The couple that initiated the trend were originally vegans, but ended up having to make a few sacrifices. Their lifestyle was so strict, it boiled down to asking the farmers where the feeds for the animals came from.
It's an interesting concept; actually, I wanted to do something like this long before I heard of the 100-mile diet-- eating locally-grown food that would had been available to my ancestors in 1871, which would had covered a bit more than a 100-mile.
However I see a few hurdles with myself: I am a potential candidate for celiac; however not all wheat, rye or spelt products bother me since it depends on the mill, so maybe it is related to the molds grown in storage at those mills, or the molds grown on the grains those mills sourced. What is really going to sucks is giving up oranges and rice, my two favourite things in the world-- and having to sustain on kasha (Slavic for groats, any kind of groats) since potato is not a favourite of mine. Also, if I do this, I will learn how to make my own jams, pickles, sauces and bread-making.
I will see about giving this diet a shot once I figure out where the grains are coming from, and see if I can find partners to help out with the u-pick farms without a vehicle of my own. Apparently the key to making the diet work is to be reasonable, and have exceptions where one is not required to observe the rule such as eating out with friends, visiting relatives, eating on the job.
Have anyone done it, or has considered doing it?
depends on how one does it. I was never a big milk drinker and actually have dairy allergies. 
Much of the corn that I see around Hampton Roads area is for the cattle or so my parents tell me.